SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of unemployed people aged 25-29 in South Korea has ranked the highest among member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a report showed Monday. According to the report by the Bank of Korea (BOK), the 25-29 age bracket accounted for 21.6 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of eco-friendly SUVs, including ones powered by hydrogen, jumped last year as fuel and environment-conscious customers increasingly opted for such cars, industry data showed Sunday. According to the Korea Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (KAMA), some 48,700 eco-friendly SUVs were sold here last month, accounting for 8.5 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports to Iran dropped nearly 90 percent from a year earlier in the first 11 months of last year, the fastest rate among the top 20 export countries, data showed Sunday. In the January-November period, Seoul’s shipments to the Middle East country came to US$259 million, down [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of Catholics in South Korea has steadily increased over the past two decades, though its growth significantly slowed in recent years, a report showed Saturday. The report issued by the Catholic Pastoral Institute of Korea said the number of Catholic Christians here increased 48.6 percent from 3,946,844 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A significant number of South Korean office workers are suffering from a lack of sleep. According to a survey of 565 workers conducted by online job portal Saramin, 74.2 percent of the respondents said they were suffering from sleep deprivation. The average daily sleep time of all respondents was [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The annual number of passengers using Incheon International Airport, the gateway to Seoul, topped 70 million for the first time last year, its operator said Thursday. According to Incheon International Airport Corp. (IIAC), a record 71.17 million passengers used Incheon International Airport in 2019, marking an increase of 4.3 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly 40 percent of college students and office workers plan to take civil service exams this year, a recent report showed. JobKorea, the operator of a job search portal, and Albamon, a recruitment website for part-timers, jointly conducted a survey of 2201 university students and workers in their 20s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Research has shown that just installing lighting facilities such as streetlights or communal front door locks can greatly reduce crime. The National Police Agency and the Architecture and Urban Research Institute analyzed the number of crimes committed before and after installing crime prevention facilities at the same unit around [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of sport utility vehicle models in South Korea hit a record high last year as carmakers strengthened their SUV lineups to meet rising demand for recreational vehicles, industry data showed Thursday. For the whole of 2019, the country’s five automakers, including Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp., [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of firefighters are choosing to commit suicide. The National Fire Agency (NFA) reported on Tuesday that as many as 56 firefighters committed suicide between 2015 and 2019, which is twice the number of deaths in the line of duty (23 people). Between 2013 and 2017, 47 [...]